Voices for democracy
Subtitle: struggles and celebrations of transformational leaders
By: edited by Paul Kelleher and Rebecca Van der Bogert.
Contributors: Kelleher, Paul 1943-; Van der Bogert, Rebecca.; National Society for the Study of Education.
Series: Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education -- 105th, pt. 1; Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education -- 105th, pt. 1.
Publisher: NSSE; Distributed by Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chicago; Malden, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: School management and organization; Educational leadership
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword :; title: The Superintendent : championing the deepest purposes of education -- Paul D. Houston -- 1. Introduction :; title: The Landscape of the superintendency : from despair to hope -- Paul Kelleher and Rebecca van der Bogert -- 2.; title: Confronting the universal disbelief that poor children can achieve at high levels -- Paul Kelleher with Beverly Hall -- 3.; title: Attacking the achievement gap in a diverse urban-suburban community : a curricular case study -- Allan Alson -- 4.; title: A Tale of two cities -- Paul Kelleher with Larry Leverett -- 5.; title: A New superintendent embraces the role of teacher -- Linda Hanson -- 6.; title: The importance of a "good fit" -- Paul Kelleher with Juan Martinez (pseudonym) -- 7.; title: Democracy during hard times -- Rebecca van der Bogert -- 8.; title: Learning on the job : the education of a school board president in shared leadership -- Becky Bair Hurley -- 9.; title: Educational leadership as civic humanism -- John R. Wiens -- Commentaries; title: Constructivist superindents -- Bena Kallick; title: Making our own minds the object of our learning : three reasons to seek self-knowledge -- Barry Jentz.